101 Famous Quotes From Alice In Wonderland

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Alice in Wonderland, a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 13th of Disney’s animated features, the film premiered in New York City and London on July 26, 1951.

The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter.

Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully, to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930’s. However, he finally revived the idea in the 1940’s.

Alice In Wonderland

The film, originally intended to be a live-action/animated film. Disney decided to make it an all-animated feature in 1946. The theme song of the same name has since become a jazz standard. The movie was criticized on its initial release, and proved to be ahead of its time.

It has since been regarded as one of Disney’s greatest animated classics. Notably one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium, as well as one of the best film adaptations of Alice.

PLOT

On a riverbank, Alice spots a White Rabbit passing by, exclaiming that he is “late for a very important date”. She gives chase, following him into a large rabbit hole.

Alice sees the Rabbit leave through a tiny door. whose talking knob advises her to shrink to an appropriate height by drinking from a bottle marked “Drink Me”. She does so and floats out through the keyhole in a sea of her own tears. which she cried after eating a biscuit marked “Eat Me”. Eating the biscuit caused her to grow very large.

As she continues to follow the Rabbit, she meets numerous characters.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of “The Walrus and the Carpenter”.

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Alice tracks the Rabbit to his house; he sends her to retrieve his gloves after mistaking her for his housemaid. Alice while searching for the gloves, eats another cookie from the cookie canister marked “Eat Me” and grows large again and getts stuck in the house.

Thinking she is a monster, he brings the Dodo over to help him get rid of her. When the Dodo decides to burn the house down, Alice escapes by eating a carrot from the Rabbit’s garden, which causes her to shrink to three inches tall, and continues following him.

Along the way, she meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her with a song, but then mistake her for a weed and order her to leave. After leaving the garden Alice meets a Caterpillar that is the same height and telling him that she is distressed, becomes enraged and turns into a butterfly. Before leaving, he advises her to eat a piece of his mushroom to alter her size. She does so and manages to return to her original height, and continues following the Rabbit.

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In the woods, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat, who advises her to visit the Mad Hatter or the March Hare to find out where the Rabbit is. She encounters both, along with the Dormouse. Inside the Hare’s house having a mad tea party and celebrating their “unbirthday”. They celebrate her unbirthday too, but she becomes frustrated at them interrupting her every time she tries to speak.

As she is above to leave, the Rabbit appears, continuing to exclaim that he is late. The Hatter examines his pocket watch and says it is “two days slow”. Attempting to “fix” it by filling it with food and tea but ends up having to destroy it after it goes “mad”.

The Rabbit laments that his watch was an “unbirthday present”. The Hatter and Hare sing “The Unbirthday Song” to him before throwing him back into the woods. Fed up with the nonsense, Alice decides to go home, but her surroundings have completely changed and she gets lost. Fearing she is lost forever, she sits on a rock sobbing.

The Cheshire Cat

The Cheshire Cat reappears and advises Alice to ask the Queen of Hearts for directions home. They tell her there is a “shortcut” to the King and tyrannical Queen’s castle. The Queen orders the beheading of the trio of playing card gardeners, who mistakenly planted white roses instead of red ones. The Queen invites Alice to play against her in a croquet match, in which live flamingos, card guards. The animals and card guards rig the game in favor of the Queen.

The Trial

The Cat reappears and plays a trick on the Queen, causing her to fall over. Then disappears just in time to make it look like Alice was the prankster. Before the Queen can order her execution, the King suggests they have a trial.

Called to the stand as witnesses. The Mad Hatter, March Hare and Dormouse, celebrate the Queen’s unbirthday, by giving her a headpiece as a present, which turns into the Cat.

Chaos ensues as the frightened Dormouse runs around the courtroom. After the Queen orders Alice’s execution, she eats the pieces of the Caterpillar’s mushroom she saved and grows large again.

The King and Queen orders her to leave the courthouse, she refuses and insults the Queen. After insulting the Queen, causing Alice returns to her normal size. the Queen orders her execution, Alice flees, and the Queen, King and card guards and other characters give chase.

After reaching the small door she encountered at the beginning of the film. The Dormouse shows her that she is actually already outside, asleep. She wakes up and leaves the riverbank with her sister and Dinah to go home for tea.

Development

The history of Walt Disney’s association with Lewis Carroll’s Alice books (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass) stretches all the way back to his childhood. Like many children of the time he was familiar with the Alice books and had read them.

In 1923, Disney was still a 21-year-old filmmaker trying to make a name for himself by working at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, making the unsuccessful shortcartoon series by the name of Newman Laugh-O-Grams. Alice’s Wonderland the last of the Newman Laugh-O-Grams, witch was inspired by the Alice books.

The short featured a live-action girl (Virginia Davis) interacting in an animated world. Faced with business problems, however, the Laugh-O-Gram Studio went bankrupt in July 1923, and the film was never released to the general public. However, Disney left for Hollywood and used the film as a sort of pilot to show to potential distributors. Margaret J. Winkler of Winkler Pictures agreed to distribute the Alice Comedies, and Disney partnered with his older brother Roy O. Disney and re-hired Kansas City co-workers including Ub Iwerks, Rudolph Ising, Friz Freleng, Carman Maxwell and Hugh Harman to form Disney Bros. Studios (later Walt Disney Productions). The series began in 1924 before being retired in 1927.

The Animated Film

In 1932, Disney began playing with the idea of making an animated feature film and repeatedly turned to the idea of making a feature-length animated/live-action version of Alice starring Mary Pickford, and even purchased the rights to Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations (still under copyright at the time). However, these plans were eventually scrapped in favor of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, mainly because Disney was put off by Paramount’s 1933 live-action adaptation. However, Disney did not completely abandon the idea of adapting Alice, and in 1936 made the Mickey Mouse cartoon Thru the Mirror.

In 1938, after the enormous success of Snow White, Disney revived the idea of making an Alice feature and officially registered the title Alice in Wonderland with the Motion Picture Association of America and hired storyboard artist Al Perkins and art director David S. Hall to develop the story and concept art for the film.

The Storyreel

A storyreel was complete in 1939, but Walt was not pleased because he felt that Hall’s drawings resembled Tenniel’s drawings too closely making them too difficult to animate. Also that the overall tone of Perkins’ script was too grotesque and dark. Realising the amount of work needed for Alice in Wonderland, as well as the economic devastation of the World War II and the production demands of Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi, Walt shelved production on Alice in Wonderland shortly after the screening.

In 1945, shortly after the war ended, Disney once again revived Alice in Wonderland and assigned British author Aldous Huxley to re-write the script. However, Walt felt that Huxley’s version was too much of a literal adaptation of Carroll’s book. Background artist Mary Blair submitted some concept drawings for Alice in Wonderland. Blair’s paintings moved away from Tenniel’s sketchy illustrations by taking a modernist stance, using bold and unreal colors. Walt liked Blair’s designs, and the script was re-written to focus on comedy, music, and the whimsical side to Carroll’s book.

Disney toyed with the idea of having a live-action/animated version of Alice in Wonderland (in a similar fashion to his Alice Comedies) that would star Ginger Rogers and would utilize the recently developed sodium vapor process. Lisa Davis Waltz (who would later voice Anita Radcliffe in One Hundred and One Dalmatians) and Luana Patten were also considered for the role of Alice. However, Walt soon realized that he could only do justice to the book by making an all-animated feature, and in 1946, work began on an all-animated version of Alice in Wonderland.